Word: philosophere
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In his novel Bend Sister, Vladimir Nabokov has his hero, the philosopher Adam Krug, attempt to escape with his little son from a communo-fascist state in Eastern Europe to America. Krug imagines David growing into a teenager, playing the strange game of baseball. He imagines him as a man...
The philosopher is the latest of 18 individuals to receive Harvard's most prestigious professorial post.
This exemplifies the moral principle that if you are asked an immoral question you can answer with a lie. The Philosophy 101 example of this is, if the Nazis came looking for a family of Jews whom you were hiding in your attic, you would be permitted to lie in...
After speaking in Cambridge, Clinton traveled to Walden Woods, Mass. to attend the grand opening of Thoreau Institute with the First Lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton. The institute, founded by singer Don Henley, is an educational facility promoting land preservation and dedicated to American author, philosopher and conservationist Henry David Thoreau...
William James played golf with John D. Rockefeller now and then. The philosopher of pragmatism admired the psalm-singing old pirate of Standard Oil. James was bemused that Rockefeller could be "so complex, subtle, oily, fierce, strongly bad and strongly good a human being." John D. was "a most lovable...